Appendix C: What to Watch on your 3D Tablet
Your 3D tablet, equipped with the Viren 3DPlayer, offers the user access to a wide
and expanding world of 3D content, available over the internet.
3D is still a relatively new technology and users of the 3D tablet can explore this
new realm with a pioneering spirit! While abundant 3D media content already
exists on the internet and awaits your discovery, users can feel confident that over
the next several years the volume of this content will expand substantially, driven
by the continued robust growth of both 3D cinema and the 3D TV market (already,
in 2013, 20% of US homes own a 3D TV, and Hollywood has dozens of 3D movies
on the slate and many more in the pipeline). More and more of this filmed and
broadcast content will make its way onto the internet.
So what's available for 3D content now?
YouTube is the world's largest repository for 3D content and currently features
over 20,000 3D videos, a number which will grow rapidly in coming years. Users
need to bear in mind as they explore this archive, that in 3D just as with YouTube's
standard 2D content, the quality of these videos varies greatly from professionally
produced big-studio movie trailers on down to haphazard amateur efforts.
Patience and a sense of humor are always helpful and you will be rewarded. If you
are reading this Guide for the first time, we recommend that you start your
YouTube explorations with two exciting 3D videos, which you can play in HD if your
network will support it:
'3D Mash-up 2011' and '3D Aquarium – Introduction.'
What about those Hollywood 3D movies? Consumer demand for streaming video
on mobile devices is growing exponentially and we expect that this service,
including both 2D and 3D video streaming, will become a standard offering from
the major service providers such as Netflix, Vudu, Amazon, Blockbuster and others
in the very near future. For example, Vudu, a Walmart service, is already offering
streaming 3D movies to owners of 3D TVs.
For more adventurous users, a Google search on '3D movies' will turn up numerous sites
offering downloads of a vast variety of movie content, including many of the well-known
Hollywood titles, past and more recent. Many of these sites enable efficient downloading and
users can download this content to their PC or laptop and then transfer it for 3D viewing to their
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